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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Andrew Bynum has no idea if he will play for the Philadelphia 76ers this season.
Evan Turner and Jrue Holiday are playing the role of go-to scorers just fine in his absence.
Turner had 18 points and 11 rebounds, Holiday scored 25 points and the Sixers beat the Detroit Pistons 104-97 on Monday night.
Turner hit the winning shot in the final seconds of overtime on Friday against Boston. Holiday took his turn with a 12-point fourth quarter against the Pistons. Holiday thrived off the pick-and-roll all game and buried a pair of pull-up jumpers in the final 2 minutes that returned the lead to five.
Holiday and Turner combined for a 19-for-33 effort from the floor with 15 assists.
"I thought Jrue and myself would be successful," said Turner, who made eight of his 13 shots. "When we play like this, we have a great chance at winning games. Tonight, we did that."
They sure did. The Sixers needed the lift after Bynum said before the game his left knee is causing him too much pain to play. The Sixers have played without him all year. They're getting used to having Turner and Holiday carry them, and it could be a familiar show for the rest of the season.
"I think we saw it last year in the playoffs when Jrue and myself stepped up," Turner said. "When the play's run for you, you've got to make the shot."
Holiday and Turner have been Philadelphia's best players, with power forward Thaddeus Young in the mix, as well. Young had 20 points and five steals. He had a nice swipe in the fourth against Tayshaun Prince at the top of Detroit's key and turned it into a fast-break dunk and a 95-91 lead.
Each time the Sixers needed a clutch bucket or a big steal, Holiday, Turner and Young delivered.
"We're the guys that have to go out there and be key for us each and every night," Young said.
Spencer Hawes had 15 points and eight rebounds for the Sixers.
Greg Monroe missed a tip with less than a minute left that came back to haunt Detroit. Holiday sank a 19-footer for a 100-95 lead and the Sixers stretched the lead from the free-throw line.
Monroe and Brandon Knight had 22 points apiece. Rodney Stuckey scored 19 for Detroit, and Tayshaun Prince finished with 16.
"Holiday got away from us a couple of times," coach Lawrence Frank said. "We had some great looks at the rim that unfortunately didn't go our way. We just have to be cleaner."
The Sixers shook off a tough loss Saturday at Boston and sluggish first half against Detroit before pulling away in the second half for the win.
Jason Richardson scored 13 points for Philadelphia, including an unusual tiebreaking 3 that made it 83-80 in the fourth. Richardson's shot rattled around the rim, shot up off the top of the backboard and plopped through the net.
Holiday's pull-up jumper made it 98-93 and the Sixers seemed to have some breathing room with 1:53 left.
The Pistons were 0-8 when they came to Philadelphia last month and thumped the Sixers 94-76. They pulled within three in this one before Monroe's miss around the basket helped cost them a second straight upset win.
"They are one of the best defensive teams in the league," Monroe said.
The 76ers opened the third quarter with a 14-0 run, turning a three-point halftime deficit into a 60-49 lead. Holiday buried a 3 during the spurt and Hawes picked up his play after a poor first half.
The Pistons recovered and pulled within three after Jason Maxiell's thunderous dunk over Young. In one of the odder box scores to that point, Maxiell missed his first 10 shots to go along with 11 rebounds. He wouldn't score again or grab another rebound.
Taking a temporary break on press row, Sixers CEO Adam Aron fretted that the Pistons were making the game too close. Knight promptly hit a 3 that tied it at 71. Perhaps looking for better luck elsewhere, Aron left for better seats.
Hawes hit an 18-footer to end the third and give the Sixers a 76-75 lead. The Sixers are now 11-0 when leading after three quarters.
NOTES: Former 76ers great Darryl Dawkins was at the game. ... Bynum said his injured right knee is feeling better but even walking causes pain in his left. He'll have his knees examined again Dec. 20th. ... The Sixers are 6-1 when scoring 100-plus points. The Pistons are 1-10 when allowing 100. ... Turner had his sixth double-double.


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Two teenage girls were hospitalized after the driver lost control of her car early Tuesday morning, crashing into a parked minivan before overturning onto the front steps of a house in North Amityville, Suffolk County police said.
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The annual award, intended to recognize the contributions of family doctors across New York, will be given out at the NYSAFP's annual Congress of Delegates meeting in Troy on June 6-8.
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On Seeing
There are only two major ways of experiencing hockey: playing and seeing. Once upon a time and many years ago, there was hearing, but radio has largely fallen out of favor now, and the only person I've ever heard of who primarily listened to hockey was a blind AHL fanatic who could follow the games in the arena by the clacks and thumps alone. Sighted people in the modern era, however, pretty much confine themselves to playing and seeing. Of the two, playing is the more revelatory, comprising as it does all the senses and the ability to affect outcomes, but it is also the more constrained. One can only play as much hockey as one's skill set and work week allow, which is generally not very much.
So most of us are stuck with seeing as our primary mode of hockey-consumption, which is unfortunate, because human eyes are not especially well-suited for seeing hockey. About the best you can say for them is that they're front-mounted (imagine trying to devise a television for deer-vision) and good at picking up motion, but their range is pathetically narrow. The horizontal breadth of human vision is perhaps 200 degrees from one extreme to the other, the furthest thing you can perceive right to the furthest thing left, which sounds pretty good until you consider that the range of focus is only about 15 degrees right in the center. Within those fifteen degrees, our sight is full-color, high-definition and fully 3-D, but the other 185 degrees have all the clarity and resolution of an amateurish 1850s daguerreotype. Every degree outside the focal point, we lose the ability to perceive color, shape, and depth rapidly, leaving only the awareness of motion.
Under normal circumstances, we use this motion-sensitivity of vision to compensate for its limited range. When we catch something moving in one of the blurry corners of the visual field, we reflexively snap our focus over to it to figure out what exactly it is. We are constantly panning that precious fifteen degrees around, our brain busily building up a detailed panorama of the encircling world. Naturally, the brain tends to keep the focus on whichever things in the environment are moving in a particularly rapid, interesting, or erratic fashion. Things that are stationary or predictable are checked more infrequently, under the (usually correct) assumption that they are this second just as they were the second before and the second before that. Under most circumstances, this mode of seeing works quite effectively to put our attention exactly where it ought to be. You are never going to miss the ninja in your living room because you're too distracted by your couch.
Unfortunately, hockey is that rare situation in life where there are multiple objects in rapid motion at the same time, none of them falling into a wholly predictable or regular pattern. The one hockey player skating alone is a remarkable enough motion to capture and hold the attention, but ten of them moving at once have a way of pulling it in ten different directions. To compensate, the natural impulse seems to be to keep the fifteen degrees of focus on the puck and the players in its immediate vicinity, but anybody who knows anything about hockey knows that plenty of important things happen away from the puck, so of course you try to do little periodic checks on the positions of the other players, without pulling your focus too far off the puck for too long. But with everyone constantly in motion, nothing is exactly the same one half-second to the next, and everything outside your fifteen degrees is blurred and hazy.
So there is bad news and good news and then more bad news beyond that. The first bad news is that your vision is not very well-suited to following hockey games. Sorry, I know it's tough to hear, but that's the way it is. The good news is that, in addition to your woefully inadequate eyes, you also have a tremendous large brain with a nearly inexhaustible capacity for learning. Everything your eyes automatically do- the zeroing in on faces and movement, the rapid flickers from this to that to this, the lightning-quick mental mapping of your immediate environment- they learned to do. Of course you don't remember what that was like because you didn't develop the capacity to form long-term memories until about two years after you learned how to see, and at the time your tiny, busy brain was also learning a great many other valuable life skills such as how to bend your knees and suck on nipples. But the way you see now is a skill you developed, and your brain is more than capable of developing new seeing skills.
Indeed, the progress of hockey understanding is in many ways tied inexorably to the development of hockey vision. I know this personally, because the entirety of my fanaticism has taken place within my adult consciousness, and I remember very clearly what it was like in the beginning, when I could barely follow the changes and didn't understand how offsides worked. Early stage hockey fanaticism is simply the ability to understand what is happening- that's a hit, that's a shot, that's a turnover. After that comes the ability to identify players and positions, and after that intentions and immediate tactics, and after that some dim recognition of strategies and systems, which is about as far as my eyes have gotten. Beyond this, I know, there is the sight of players and coaches and the most advanced analysts, who can perceive a sophisticated geometry of play, a lattice of lanes and angles which I only notice when they are used, but to them appear always as the shifting ghosts of potential plays. At the highest point of hockey vision, there are some truly remarkable seers.
But remember how I said there was more bad news? Here it is: learning awesome hockey vision does not happen automatically just because you slap your eyes on enough games. It requires disciplined, critical attention. To see the game well, you have to watch a lot of it and watch it carefully, dead serious, dead sober. You have to develop an underlying knowledge and then apply that to your vision, and then apply the vision to the knowledge, in endless recursions of refinement. In hockey, what you know doesn't just affect your interpretation of what you see, it can literally determine what you see, so you better be damn sure that what you know is true. Most of what your brain tells you about things caught in your peripheral vision is based on guesswork, which is in turn based on experience and preexisting knowledge. When your eyes are following the puck carrier, not much else- even on a TV screen- is within your range of perfectly accurate vision. So say there's another player on the ice, towards the lower right of your little ocular window. What your eyes are actually perceiving about this guy is virtually nothing- they're not reading his number, they're not distinguishing his size, hell, they're barely even registering the colors on his uniform. If they're aware of him at all, it's only because he's in motion. In this second, everything you know about this guy is based not on what you're seeing but on what you know. Your brain is making lightning-quick best-possible-guesses about who he is and what he's going to do. But the more you know about the teams, the line combinations, the coaches, the status of the game, the status of the season overall, and various hockey strategies and tactics, the more likely it is that such guesses will prove accurate, the more likely it is that your eyes will dart to the blurry peripheral figure who's likely to do something significant and avoid the ones who aren't. To get to the point where you can really see an entire game, clearly and accurately, you have to have honed and refined your mental shortcuts to the point where they are almost never wrong. That don't come easy. To be a student of the game, it turns out you actually do have to study.
It's just you and me here, now, on this blog, so let's be honest with each other: we do not really want to watch hockey that way. That way of watching hockey is hard. You know how sometimes you've got a game on and the color dude is speculating about some potential trade and they cut to a shot of the GM sitting in some dull beige box, glowering down at the ice with an expression that somehow conveys both depression and constipation? That is what serious, analytical hockey-watching looks like. It is not fun.
We want to have fun watching. We want to watch with friends and chit-chat while we do it. We want to watch in bars and drink while we do it. We want to watch in arenas and scream and jump and sing through it. Sure, hockey knowledge is great, but it's not what our hearts want to get from the experience of watching a game. We want community and laughter, excitement and thrills, we want the vicarious immediacy of being there. We don't want to be serious, no matter how seriously we take the outcome. We want to frivol.
Nothing wrong with that, nothing at all. Frivolous watching is the hockey-god given right of every fan, and indeed just about the only thing we have over the experts who are contractually obligated to analyze every damn thing. It is a privilege to be able to have no serious ideas whatsoever while watching a game, and we should feel no shame whatsoever for taking advantage of it. That is what the whole hockey media is there for, with their play-by-play and their intermission debates and their telestrators and their instant replays: to allow you to watch games in a drunken, half-assed fashion and still understand most of what's going on.
But know this: frivolous vision is not analytical vision. The ideas one gets about hockey from the casual, tipsy watching of a game are impressions, and impressions are not to be confused with insights. Impressions are chancy things, based on what the eyes happened to catch at a particular second, and they- like every chance sighting- are subject to a whole raft of cognitive fallacies and shortcuts. These have been often enumerated and discussed in the hockey blogosphere, so I won't bore you with lengthy explanations of confirmation bias, and the illusion of validity, and the availability heuristic. [Sidebar: Is it just me, or are cognitive fallacies starting to edge out evolutionary psychology as the defining explanatory framework of our cultural moment? Discuss.] Suffice to say, if you're not bringing your absolute best, most critical attention to bear on the game, than a lot of what you think you see is at best incomplete and at most flat-out wrong. Hockey is fucking complicated system, and your eyes are not the best tools the universe ever gave a creature to make sense of complicated systems moving at high speeds.
Which is not to say no good ever came from a chance impression. A smart person with a deep knowledge of the sport can pick up on meaningful things even in a cursory glace- all that learning and experience doesn't vanish just because you've had a few beers and are flirting hard with the chick on the next barstool. I'm sure plenty of revelatory analyses of hockey have had their origins in a fleeting glimpse. But the fleeting glimpse is not, in itself, the revelatory analysis. It needs to be checked, ex post facto, against itself, against similar events, against the data, against history.
Say you are watching a game in the casual way and happen to notice that a given forward spends nearly his whole shift along the boards, unable to crack the slot. You know from the narratives of the day that this player has not been scoring so much as one might expect. Your impression, then, is that Forward X is a perimeter player who's afraid to get his nose dirty. You are perfectly entitled to this impression, of course, and nobody is going to blame you if you voice it, in exasperated tones, to your fellow watchers during the next commercial. However, it is not necessarily true. You do not have enough evidence to know whether it is true, and if you care about truth, then you have an obligation to treat the impression critically and do a little research. You can go back and watch his other shifts. You can check out charts that show wherefrom he takes his shots. You can look at his underlying percentages. Through the magic of Google, you can check your impression against those of others going back through all the years of his play to his midget days. You can check it against the more analytical vision of scouts, teammates, coaches, and general managers. There is no excuse, with the absolutely mind-blowingly vast array of hockey knowledge available to even the most casual fan nowadays, for passing off one's momentary, fragmentary glimpse as hard fact.
And yet, people do this all the time. There are some circles of hockey thought these days that take a rather dim view of 'seeing' as a way of acquiring and developing hockey knowledge, and I think it's largely because of some fans' recurring insistence that any little thing they think they saw be treated as hard evidence, when in fact it is barely even a sliver of an anecdote. Any time you're trying to get someone to believe in something based on something you saw, stop for a moment and consider: there are people who believe they have seen leprechauns. If you don't believe those people based on the evidence of their eyes, then it is probably not fair to expect others to believe anything based only on the evidence of yours.
Nevertheless, despite its inadequacies as both a mode of perception and a rhetorical technique, I find I am always seduced by the promises of seeing something good, because seeing is about why things happen, and why is the most elusive part of hockey. What is easier: the score sheet can tell you the basic what, and beyond that lies a whole infinite regression of what. From simple stats to refined stats to advanced stats, the numbers get more and more accurate but it's all what, and all of it is susceptible to the fear that all it really says is that shots were taken and goals were scored. What is good and useful, and it might be all you really need for any practical decision or assessment, but most hockey fans seem to long for why more than what. We want the causal mechanism, not just the starting point and the ending point. You can describe the brilliance of the Penguins with a thousand kinds of data but it's still just what while the mind craves the why. The one thing that eyes will always have over numbers is the potential to explain why, which makes it triply heartbreaking that they seldom deliver on that promise. Most of the time, all we see with our casual vision is what we already believe reflected back at us. Night after night, the game will show you what you expect to see and nothing more, unless you force yourself to look harder.
I would like to end this with some sort of formula for how exactly one does that, how one combats all the cognitive biases and physical limitations, how one cultivates good hockey vision. I wish I had the secret, but I don't. All I have is the following idea, and it is not even quite an idea but merely a suggestion, and I would not dare to call it a good one, but it is the best I have so far, and it is this principle: Do not trust your eyes; challenge them. Make then see differently than their first instinct. Fight the impression rather than giving into it. Spend a whole game watching only one or two players, keeping your focal point and attention on only them no matter where the puck flies. Or do the opposite and focus only on zones- watch one area of the ice always and notice who goes there and what they do while they're there. Count your own scoring chances, not for the data so much as for the discipline of training yourself to think about what is a chance and isn't, to pick up quickly who is on the ice and who isn't. Watch only the defensemen in the act of defending. Watch only the goalie. Some of you, of course, have better eyes and have done all these things and more, but they beauty of hockey is that there is always something you haven't yet noticed, if only you have eyes to see it. If only you can teach your eyes to see it.


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So here's the thing:
I'm turning this blog into a podcast. I bought the domain over at http://www.ClaireDeLunacy.com and I've migrated this blog over there.
In addition to the occasional scribblings you get from me here (or, er, there, in the future at least), there will be (God help us all) the Claire De Lunacy podcast. That's right, a whole hour, every week, of yours truly, with call-in guests (it's true!), some commentary, and a few new surprises (e.g., every tenth caller is randomly either hugged by a stripper, hit in the stomach by a large, angry Hungarian, or given the power of flight*).
Every week starting NEXT SUNDAY, MAY 2nd, 2010, I'll be hosting an hour-long free-for-all discussion covering topics (in no particular order) that I've posted here on Claire De Lunacy.
I already have the call-in set up, I'll be posting the info as we get closer to the big day. In the interim, my dear, sweet friends, ruminate on these topics:
1) The hubbub surrounding Israel Luna's odious "transploitation" film "Ticked Off Trannies with Knives."
2) Clash of the Smitin's: Unnecessary Remakes and Why They Suck.
3) And speaking of Things That Should Not Be™, a whole new slew of, er, Things That Should Not Be™ (got a nomination? SEND IT TO ME…NAO!)
4) LGBTidbits™ (Those of you familiar with my Twitter feed will recognize this topic. Everyone else, just be prepared to discuss the week's LGBT news. Well, I mean, not SUPER prepared. There won't be a quiz or anything.)
5) The Super-Fun Book Club of Fun-ness™ returns! Our book for the month of May is "American Lion," a very compelling biography of Andrew Jackson by Jon Meachem (you don't have to read the entire book for the first podcast, we'll be discussing it in general and also you get to sit and listen to me explain how the SFBCOF™ works…I know, I know – does the fun ever START?)
6) Random Review: NetFlix for the Wii Or, as I like to call it, "My television's desperate final ploy to remain relevant to my existence." (as ploys go, it's surprisingly effective)
7) SPECIAL BONUS TOPIC! CASTING: UR DOIN IT WRONG We'll be discussing how remakes SHOULD be cast, as well as remakes we'd like to see, and a whole bunch of other nerdy stuff that will make the non-nerdy among you (should you exist) throw up your hands and say "But I LIKE Matthew McCan'tActy as Dirk Pitt!"
Eventually, I'll be taking these podcasts into Audacity to strip out all the "erms," and "uhhhs" and "Doyyyy" sounds. But for the first month or so, it's the Wild effing West, baby! (something tells me that we'll earn our "Explicit" rating within the first ten minutes. I know how you think, Hordelings!)
Each week's info will also be posted to the web site, so don't get your collective panties in a bunch if there's something we natter on about that catches your…ear(?) and you don't have a pencil handy.
I hope to hear from you, friends. It's sure to be a fun time, or at least more entertaining than having your pinkie torn off by an iPad thief.**
*No, not really.
** OK, to be fair, some people might get off on that, so I will say it's LIKELY to be more fun. You sick bastards.
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'The End and the Beginning'
George Weigel had unprecedented access to the papacy when he wrote Witness to Hope, his biography of Pope John Paul II. For the sequel, which was issued this month, he mined the extensive archives of Soviet-bloc spy agencies that were released in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
George Weigel had unprecedented access to the papacy when he wrote Witness to Hope, his biography of Pope John Paul II.
For the sequel, he mined the extensive archives of Soviet-bloc spy agencies that were released in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II — The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy, released Sept. 14 by Doubleday Religion, examines John Paul's struggle against communism from his early days as a Polish bishop to his election as Pope and his orchestration of a nonviolent conclusion to the Cold War; it then skips to the high points and challenges of John Paul II's last six years, with special attention to the Great Jubilee of 2000, his struggle to deal with the U.S. clergy abuse crisis of 2002, and the onset of Parkinson's disease that imprisoned his body — even as it drew him closer to the cross and the path of "salvific suffering."
Weigel spoke with Register correspondent Joan Frawley Desmond about the book.
You published your bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, in 1999, more than a decade ago. Summarize some of the fresh and deepened insights regarding his pontificate that you distilled in The End and the Beginning.
The End and the Beginning offers an extensive account of the last six years of John Paul II's life and pontificate, years not covered in Witness to Hope. In the new book, I am also able to retell the story of Karol Wojtyla's 40-year struggle with communism in much greater detail thanks to the recent availability of communist secret police and government documents — and there are some remarkable stories to tell.
Finally, The End and the Beginning includes a comprehensive assessment of John Paul II, man and Pope, which was not possible in 1999.
Describe your relationship with the Pope.
Although I had been writing about John Paul II since his election to the papacy, and I think he knew of me as one of those who were interpreting him to an American audience, I had my first serious conversation with John Paul II shortly after the 1992 publication of my book The Final Revolution, which was the first study of the collapse of communism to stress the crucial roles played by the Church and the Pope in the revolution of 1989.
I think John Paul was far less interested in my analysis of his role than in my claim that moral power — the power of aroused consciences — had been decisive in shaping "1989." Our conversation deepened over the following years, and of course I spent dozens of hours with him while I was researching Witness to Hope. Happily, the relationship continued after that, and the many conversations and meals I shared with John Paul between 1999 and 2005 help, I hope, to give a richer human texture to The End and the Beginning.
It's worth noting for the record that neither Witness to Hope nor The End and the Beginning is an authorized biography; no one had any vetting rights over anything, and no one in the Vatican, including the Pope, saw a word of Witness to Hope until I handed the Pope a copy of the book in September 1999. Our conversation over the years was both very friendly and completely adult: There were joys to share, disagreements to explore, problems and dilemmas to consider.
What is the value of time for a biographer, even one who knew the flesh-and-blood man he is writing about?
Obviously time gives one some emotional distance on the person about whom one is writing. But in my case, the most important "time factor" was the fact that I came into possession, after the Pope's death and through the courtesy of Polish academic colleagues, of a cache of remarkable materials from the files of the Polish secret police and communist-era foreign ministry, the East German Stasi, the KGB, the Hungarian secret police, and the White House, none of which had been previously available. Those materials allowed me to explore the communist war against John Paul II in considerable (and dramatic) detail; some have said that the first third of The End and the Beginning reads like an espionage novel. And I expect there's something to that.
The End and the Beginning conveys the impression that Soviet-bloc spy agencies devoted considerable resources to monitoring the Church, both in Eastern Europe and the Vatican. Why did they fear the Church?
From the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution on, the Soviet Union considered the Catholic Church its most serious ideological opponent, and thus did everything possible to destroy it, impede its work, blackmail its leaders, and foul its public reputation. To take one example: No small part of the "black legend" of Pius XII's alleged Nazi sympathies and indifference to the fate of European Jewry was launched by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, in an attempt to ease the communist takeover of east central Europe in the aftermath of World War II. In the case of John Paul II, of course, the threat was even greater, because, as KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov understood shortly after the Pope's election, a Polish pope with John Paul II's convictions and skills not only threatened the Soviet position in Poland (and thus the Warsaw Pact) but also the Soviet position in such Soviet "republics" as Lithuania and Ukraine. Andropov was, of course, right, although the Pope's power was not of the sort that Andropov ever understood — another issue I explore in the book.
Tell us something that surprised you about these records from the KGB and other spy agencies.
Anyone who knew anything about how this deadly game was played knew, of course, that Soviet-bloc intelligence agencies were spending serious efforts to undermine the Catholic Church. I suppose what most surprised me was the sheer magnitude of the effort, which involved millions of man-hours and billions of dollars. I was also unaware of the degree to which Soviet-bloc intelligence agencies attempted to manipulate the Second Vatican Council for their purposes — and how unaware of this assault the Vatican seemed to be (and continued to be until 1978).
How were these spy agencies able to infiltrate Catholic institutions, and what were the motivations of the collaborators that reported on the Church?
There were any number of recruitment or blackmail techniques, which I describe in the book.
As for the motivations of collaborators, I think one has to distinguish between various levels of contacts with the secret police. Some were relatively innocent. Others were motivated by ambition, intraclerical intrigues, venality and other forms of corruption. I should emphasize, however, that there is no evidence that any of this nastiness had the slightest effect on John Paul II's conduct of the papacy.
John Paul II sought to transform the Holy See's policy of Ostpolitik by creating the foundation for the nonviolent overthrow of the Soviet empire. Yet he appointed Cardinal [Agostino] Casaroli, a strong advocate of Ostpolitik, as his secretary of state. Why did he do that, and what does that decision reflect about his approach to foreign policy? Other examples?
I have long argued that the appointment of Casaroli, architect of the Ostpolitik of Paul VI, as John Paul II's secretary of state, was an extremely shrewd move on John Paul's part. With Casaroli as principal Vatican diplomatic agent, no communist government could accuse John Paul of reneging on Paul VI's agreements or dramatically changing the Vatican's policy line. Meanwhile, John Paul II himself went around and over the heads of governments with moral appeals to oppressed peoples around the world, calling them to live in the truth, which was his basic weapon against communism. It was a classic good cop-bad cop strategy.
What was John Paul II's primary accomplishment during the final years of his pontificate?
I would say the Great Jubilee of 2000 and the manner in which he lived his last months, a kind of public dying that constituted what I call in the book his "last encyclical."
Catholics that love and honor John Paul II were dismayed by his handling of the U.S. clergy sex-abuse crisis. How did you research this issue, and did any of your findings surprise you?
I had, of course, discussed a lot of this in The Courage to Be Catholic and then again in God's Choice, and in the new book I try to bring this all together in a long-range view.
The first thing to be said here is that John Paul II was a great reformer of the priesthood. When he came to the papacy in 1978, the Catholic priesthood was in severe crisis throughout the world. He changed that, dramatically, by lifting up and embodying a heroic model of priestly self-sacrifice, by his constant personal attention to priests, and by his reform of seminaries (mandated by the apostolic exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis).
As I indicated in The Courage to Be Catholic, John Paul II (and indeed much of the rest of the Vatican) was about four months behind the real-time curve of the "Long Lent" of 2002. In April of that year, the Pope was only learning things he should have been told about by his nunciature in Washington in early January. So what could seem like indifference or inattention was in fact a very bad line of communication between Washington and Rome. Finally informed of what was in fact happening, the Pope acted, decisively.
The End and the Beginning suggests that his difficulty dealing with the crisis reflected a disinclination to accept allegations against priests, in part, because Soviet-era regimes unjustly raised similar allegations against priests.
I don't want to get into speculations about papal psychology, but the fact that charges of sexual impropriety were a standard communist tactic against the Catholic clergy had to have been part of the "filter" through which John Paul II "heard" the stories of abuse that came to the surface in 2002.
You note that Poles were with the Pope during his final hours. How would you describe these bonds between countrymen? What constrained his relationships with non-Poles?
I don't think it was so much a question of constraint with others as it was the inability or unwillingness of the rest of the Vatican to change its inbred ways.
The election of a non-Italian pope was a great shock to the system, and the shock waves endured for more than a quarter century.
As for those around the Pope when he died, well, I rather imagine we'd all like to be surrounded by those to whom we are closest when we begin the final journey to the Father's house.
What was the impact of a highly visible Pope struggling with all the symptoms of Parkinson's disease? Off-screen, how did it affect the workings of the Vatican?
Evangelically, the Pope's witness during his holy death (and throughout his years of physical struggle) was a priceless gift to the Church and the world: his last priestly invitation to believers and nonbelievers alike to enter into the mystery of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen.
Bureaucratically, things slowed down, undoubtedly. But John Paul II remained the master of the scene until the very end.
In your reappraisal of his pontificate, his spiritual paternity and his deeply mystical spirituality are especially distinctive qualities.
In the book, I try to figure out why this man was so compelling a figure to people who did not share his convictions and commitments. And I decided it had something to do with his remarkable capacity to embody the key traits of fatherhood (strength and mercy) in a world bereft of true fathers. That he also communicated, through that paternity, the reality of a transcendent order in which we participate and which breaks into our mundane reality at surprising moments of grace simply added to the attraction of the man.
What about the broader goals of his pontificate? Within the Church and beyond it?
In sum: His goal for the Church was for Catholicism to rediscover its essence as an evangelical movement in history, the bride of the Lamb inviting the world to the Supper of the Lamb.
As for the world, he was the great defender of universal human rights in our time and proposed that "rights" understood according to the natural moral law could be a kind of grammar by which a fractured world could engage in real conversation.
Joan Frawley Desmond writes from Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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FACT CHECK: Class Size MattersThursday, June 2nd, 2011
HASLAM RHETORIC: Class Size Doesn't Matter
Gov. Bill Haslam says class size doesn't matter. "Most studies have shown that class size is not as direct a relationship to achievement as people have thought in the past, that having a great teacher with 25 students is better than having a mediocre teacher with 18 students." [Chattanooga Times Free Press, 6/1/11]
» Is the hunt for "great teachers" an implication that the majority of Tennessee teachers are not great — regardless of classroom size?
REALITY: Class Size Matters
A Study of 900,000 Students Over 70 Years. The seminal study on the effect of class size in education is Meta-Analysis of Research on the Relationship of Class-Size Achievementpublished in 1978 by the Laboratory of Educational Research at University of Colorado. The study is based on "data from a total of 900,000 pupils spanning 70 years research in more than a dozen countries." ["Meta-Analysis of Research on the Relationship of Class-Size and Achievement," pg. 31, Laboratory of Educational Research at the University of Colorado, 9/1978, accessed 6/1/11]
» Reduced class-size can be expected to produce increased academic achievement. ["Meta-Analysis of Research on the Relationship of Class-Size and Achievement," pg. 8, accessed 6/1/11]
» The major benefits from reduced class-size are obtained when class size is reduced below 20 pupils. ["Meta-Analysis of Research on the Relationship of Class-Size and Achievement," pg. 9, accessed 6/1/11]
Tennessee was the starting point for modern push for smaller classrooms. It began with Gov. Lamar Alexander and the Tennessee's Project STAR (Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio). The Brookings Institute called Tennessee's Student Teacher Achievement Ratio, or STAR, "the most influential and credible study of CRS (class room size)." Conducted in Tennessee during the late 1980s, in this study, students and teachers were randomly assigned to a small class, with an average of 15 students, or a regular class, with an average of 22 students. [Brookings Institute, 5/11/11]
» Smaller Class Sizes Improved Achievement by 32%. This large reduction in class size (7 students, or 32 percent) was found to increase student achievement by an amount equivalent to about 3 additional months of schooling four years later. [Quarterly Journal of Economics, 6/1997]
» Minority Students Doubled Achievement. Smaller class sizes produced "substantial improvement in early learning and cognitive studies and that the effect of small class size on the achievement of minority children was initially about double that observed for majority children. ["The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early Grades," 1995, accessed 6/1/11]
» Small Class Sizes Produce Lasting Effects. "Children who were originally enrolled in smaller classes continued to perform better than their grade-mates (whose school experience had begun in larger classes) when they were returned to regular-sized classes in later grades." ["The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early Grades," 1995, accessed 6/1/11]
» In Tennessee, Smaller Class Sizes Have Paid For Themselves. Education cost-benefit analysis expert Alan B. Krueger estimated that the return on the investment in smaller class sizes in Tennessee was slightly bigger (6 percent) than the costs of implementing the program. [Quarterly Journal of Economics, 6/1997]


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Folsom, California
Folsom, California (AKA That place with the prison) is a small suburb near Sacramento not known for its bustling city life or its exciting climate. Rather, it isn't known for anything at all. Outside of the Folsom Prison, which still fails to land it a dot on the map, most people have never heard of this humble township of 72,000. And hopefully they never will.
Folsom is named for Joseph Libbey Folsom, although the average citizen would not know this fact; the mere mention of which would baffle most Folsom teenagers (who, due to having nothing to do in their free time, have mostly regressed to skateboarding and smoking weed). In 1886 there was a large Chinese community, but the founding citizens of Folsom, being the great Americans they were, set the local Chinatown on fire and drove the Chinese out of town. They have largely been replaced by Indians, Filipinos, and Arabs; a cause of endless grief to the rich, white majority.
Folsom Prison was established in 1880 to house the lawfully-challenged citizens and Mexicans. It is, sadly, the city's most distinguishing feature.
In 1956, the aptly-named Folsom Dam was built to provide flood control and a lake to help drive attention away from the prison, and to give Folsom a more tourist-destination vibe. Needless to say, this failed, as the prison is still the only reason outsiders even remember the damn place.
Historic Sutter Street[edit]
Sutter Street is a historical street in Folsom where the buildings haven't been rennovated since around the time the US still had some value in California. It's also a popular destination for obnoxious teenagers, but only on certain nights where something is actually happening there. On Sutter Street, people can walk up and down the street and look at the buildings. That's about it. When one gets tired of this diverting activity, they can head to the Chicago Fire Pizza nearby and take a quick bite before continuing the momentuous activity of walking up and down the street.
Thankfully, there's always many exciting events going on to ensure you spend as much money as possible there. Events include, but are not limited to: Antique store sales, the Thursday Night Market, and parades consisting of two men dressed somewhat like cowboys riding down the street in a horse-drawn carriage. Due to the budget cuts, however, it is now mandatory to buy stuff from at least 22 of the 60 antique dealers whenever one visits there. All money goes toward doing nothing for the school district while firing all of the arts and music teachers, thus eliminating the only possible places outside of lunch where students can express their creativity and LSD trips.
Folsom Today[edit]
Today, Folsom is mostly inhabited by a rich white majority; with the notable minorities being Mexicans, Filipinos (AKA The Mexicans of Asia), Indians (not the American ones), and Arab Muslims. There are surprisingly few black people in Folsom, possibly due to the lack of gangs in the area. The few black people that do live there are centers of attention for other people who want to know what black people look like and if they can really run as fast as everyone says they can.
Notable Residents[edit]
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The only disadvantage to the weather being so perfect at The Wells Street Art Festival in Chicago's trendy Old Town neighborhood this past Saturday is that it ensured a massive turnout. By the time I arrived at 3:30 PM to take in some art, photography, and free food and beverage samples before checking out The Smithereens at 5:45 PM, it was nearly impossible to squeeze through the sun-drenched revelers. This meant not being able to get a full view of the stage, but at least I could hear the songs perfectly well.
Summer just wasn't the same last year without The Smithereens dropping in for at least one outdoor festival, so it was good to hear them cranking out their power pop gems again in 2013. They opened with the guitar-driven "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" from their full-length debut Especially For You. Introducing "Sorry" from their overlooked but very strong Smithereens 2011 CD, lead vocalist-guitarist Pat DiNizio noted that Tom Petty invited the band to join him and The Heartbreakers on tour this year after he had heard it.
The Wells Street Art Festival concert also included "In A Room Without A View," "Time And Time Again," "Only A Memory," and "House We Used To Live In," which once again segued into "Sparks," the instrumental from The Who's Tommy. Guitarist-vocalist Jim Babjak and drummer-vocalist Dennis Diken, as always, joined DiNizio for some well-executed jamming. Bassist Severo "The Thrilla" Jornacion was missing, due to an illness (I think), and I didn't catch the name of the musician filling in for him. Whoever it was definitely met the challenge of propelling The Smithereens through their signature barn-burner, "Blood And Roses."


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When I came back from Florida we went to pick up Gerald at Special Bunny, at that time we all decided that he should stay there. I just could not give him the medical care he needed. Unfortunately he eventually stopped eating and we made the decision to help him find Clint, and Gerald was put down the evening of November 8th.
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Gerald was a curmudgeon. We felt he was an old bun when we first got him. When all 4 Reno Rabbits arrived here, he was the last to come out of the carrier. He was always the most shy of all the buns. When living outside he did have a good time running around and digging in the dirt.
Gerald 2006
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Gerald 2009, he loved digging
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elon Musk testified Tuesday that he was being insulting, not literal, when he called a British diver a pedophile in a tweet, prompting a defamation lawsuit from the man who helped rescue a dozen boys and their soccer coach from a flooded Thailand cave last year.
The Tesla CEO told jurors that he called Vernon Unsworth "pedo guy" because he was upset the diver had belittled his efforts to help by building a mini-submarine to transport the boys. Unsworth called it nothing more than a "PR stunt" and said Musk could stick the contraption "where it hurts." The sub was never used.
"It was wrong and insulting, so I insulted him back," the billionaire said in federal court in Los Angeles. "It was an unprovoked attack on what was a good-natured attempt to help the kids."
Unsworth's lawyers argue that Musk's tweet overshadowed what should have been one of the diver's proudest moments and left him no choice but to sue.
At the time, Musk said he didn't know Unsworth had helped with the rescue. He said his tweet wasn't intended as an actual allegation.
"Just as I hadn't literally meant he was a pedophile, he didn't want to shove a sub up my ass," Musk said, provoking snickers in the courtroom.
Unsworth is seeking unspecified damages for pain, suffering and emotional distress. The defense has resisted efforts to turn over documents showing Musk's wealth but says his net worth exceeds $20 billion.
Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, said earlier that Unsworth deserves nothing for what he called "joking, taunting tweets in a fight between men."
The shame and mortification Unsworth said he experienced is undercut by the attention he received after the rescue, Spiro said, including honors from the Thai king and British prime minister and offers from agents and film crews.
"There's a little more to this Twitter insult, and you'll hear it," Spiro told jurors.
Musk has apologized for lashing out at Unsworth and removed his tweet, but he also has defended using the phrase.
"'Pedo guy' was a common insult used in South Africa when I was growing up," Musk said in a court declaration. "It is synonymous with 'creepy old man' and is used to insult a person's appearance and demeanor."
Unsworth's lawyers laughed off that explanation, saying Musk responded to a question about whether he had accused Unsworth of being a pedophile with another tweet that said, "Bet ya a signed dollar it's true."
The diver's lawyers also said Musk hired private investigators to dig up evidence Unsworth was a child molester, which they never found.
Musk suggested in emails to BuzzFeed that Unsworth was a "child rapist" and had moved to northern Thailand to take "a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time." He provided no evidence.
The lawsuit is not the first time Musk's tweets have landed him in hot water.
Musk and Tesla reached a $40 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission last year over allegations he misled investors with a tweet declaring he had secured financing to buy out the electric car maker. He agreed in the settlement to have future tweets about the company screened.
He went back to court on accusations he violated that agreement by tweeting a misleading figure about how many cars Tesla would manufacture this year. The SEC sought to hold him in contempt of court, which led to a new agreement imposing tighter controls on Musk's tweets about the company.
The cave drama played out for more than two weeks in summer 2018.
Musk and engineers from his SpaceX rocket company custom-built a mini-submarine, which was heavily publicized but never used.
Unsworth, a diver and caving expert whose advice was considered crucial in the rescue operation, said the sub would never have fit in the cave.
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Entries created by Tbot during October 2009.
These entries are created from the translations given in English language entries. Feel free to add a language category if you would like to work on it; the category text should be {{tbotcatboiler|(language)}}
Each new entry has one POS (part of speech) and sense, and the attributes for that translation (gender, number, transliteration, etc).
Tbot started adding missing language sections to existing entries on 1 April 2008.
Entries made in November 2007 were not checked against the foreign-language wiktionary, and are not as reliable. At some point all of those remaining with tags will be deleted. Please comment and note problems at WT:Information desk.
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